Welcome to Bimmerfest -- The #1 Online Community for BMW related information! Please enjoy the discussion forums below and share your experiences with the 200,000 current, new and past BMW owners. The forums are broken out by car model and into other special interest sections such as BMW European Delivery and a special forum to voice your questions to the many BMW dealers on the site to assist our members!

We have the premium sound package on our GT which is supposed to have 16 speakers. For the life of me I can only find 12 of them. (Front window pillar, front door, 2 in the rear door, rear deck all x2 for 10 plus the two subs under the front seats makes 12.)

two housed in center speaker in middle of dash and 2 additional subs in the rear

Thanks. I forgot the dash speaker (but I would only have counted that as one anyway) and it is good to know about the rear subs. I guess that is why people rav about the sound when watching a movie using the rear seat entertainment system.

i had the sound in my car set by the guy that does all the sound systems for the grateful dead....if i get a chance i will send you the settings... made an unbelievable difference in the sound for all passengers and drivers... pretty simple settings of the eq and other tone settings...sounds perfect for all types of music...

I have an old equalizer that comes with a white noise generator and a calibrated microphone...it really did make a big difference in how stereo sounded in the room, and it similarly, it should help in a car. While some would scoff, the Bose system I have comes with a set of binaural microphones and a program where you can set up up to five 'sweet spots' in a room...it, too, makes a difference.

Now, why BMW doesn't set the default to a nice balanced sound levels for us is the real mystery! Then, the only adjustments would be for personal hearing anomalies.

i had the sound in my car set by the guy that does all the sound systems for the grateful dead....if i get a chance i will send you the settings... made an unbelievable difference in the sound for all passengers and drivers... pretty simple settings of the eq and other tone settings...sounds perfect for all types of music...

mp

I would really appreciate that. I started to look at the audio settings and it made my head swim. (My last "car" was a Ford F-150 with base and treble controls...)

i will pull the settings this weekend and get the to you....The head of the grateful dead sound board was in NY to set the sound for radio city music hall and i called in a favor.. He literally spent over an hour doing it... finding the balance that made the entire car sound great with a little bias to the drive, (had to be biased somewhere)....

The best thing i ever had in a car is in my porsche where you can set the sound to be optimized for the drive, the passenger or both... there is a very noticeable difference when you switch...
mp